Games for kids!

[daller]

Hi There,

My littlesister is disappointed about all the games she can't play! - And considers a switch to XP!

Let's prove her wrong! :D

She's 12 years old! - What games should I install?

[Artificial Intelligence]

Depends which kind of games she likes.

But this might be interresting:

Pingus: http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Pingus
Professor Fizzwizz: http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Professor_Fizzwizzle

[daller]

Lots of different games really!

She's now playing:

Pingus
Chromium
Ksudoku (Not from the repo)
Enigma
Solarwolf

...And a lot of games included in "kdegames"

Not having her Riva TNT2 card work properly, I haven't got ppracer, neverball etc... working!

Professor isn't free, is it?

Any other ideas?

[Artificial Intelligence]

The professor isn't free, but it's a great game and also very entertaining for a more adult audience.

Head over Heels: http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Head_Over_Heels
Docking station: http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Creatures:_Docking_Station

Both free

[stoffe]

Fish Fillets (http://fillets.sourceforge.net/) maybe? Oddly enough, I can't seem to find it in the repos anymore... sure hope someone didn't remove it. :(

[drfalkor]

supertux:KS

[kingsidy]

tuxracer, supertux like drfalkor said,there is another game where a penguin slides down an icy valley and you try to collect fish, i forget the name though i think that would be good gor kid. plus it is sort of 3d.

[daller]

Fish Fillets (http://fillets.sourceforge.net/) maybe? Oddly enough, I can't seem to find it in the repos anymore... sure hope someone didn't remove it. :(

Isn't it the fillets-ng package? (it's in universe!)

[Artificial Intelligence]

Aye, if you enable universe. Fillets final is there.

[stoffe]

Duh, of course I have universe enabled - I have already installed it, after all. But it still doesn't show up on a search. Other things work as expected... that's why I asked if it was - unlikely as it might be - removed. Still the same problem.

Update: Well, upon inspection, it turns out I had a weird caching problem with universe (not an unknown problem in the forums as it turned out either) where it wouldn't reload due to some partial residue of some sort... I now have fillets-ng back and take everything I said back. Sorry! =)

[daller]

Duh, of course I have universe enabled - I have already installed it, after all. But it still doesn't show up on a search. Other things work as expected... that's why I asked if it was - unlikely as it might be - removed. Still the same problem.

Doesn't find it?

madsen@ubuntu:~$ apt-cache search fillet fish
fillets-ng - puzzle game about witty fish saving the world sokoban-style
fillets-ng-data - docs, graphics, music and international sounds for fillets-ng
fillets-ng-data-cs - add-on sounds for czech language spoken dialogs for fillets-ng

[stoffe]

Doesn't find it?

madsen@ubuntu:~$ apt-cache search fillet fish
fillets-ng - puzzle game about witty fish saving the world sokoban-style
fillets-ng-data - docs, graphics, music and international sounds for fillets-ng
fillets-ng-data-cs - add-on sounds for czech language spoken dialogs for fillets-ng
Yep, see update in previous post. SOme weird error in apt, apparently...

[daller]

Oki!

Well, it's a nice game, but my littlesister can't read english (not our native language!)

Something like Jazz Jackrabbit, or similar would be nice!

About the professor game! - I freezed my system completely - Had to reboot :(

[anil_robo]

a 12 year old should love Slune! (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=107426)
She could also play tuxkart! It's fun! :)

[Artificial Intelligence]

Oki!

Well, it's a nice game, but my littlesister can't read english (not our native language!)

Something like Jazz Jackrabbit, or similar would be nice!

About the professor game! - I freezed my system completely - Had to reboot :(

Strange...runs fine here, so I guess you didn't see any error output then.

[daller]

Strange...runs fine here, so I guess you didn't see any error output then.

Can't get to the terminal or anything :(

[kingsidy]

i remember the game is called tuxracer. You control the penguin gliding down icy mountains

[Omnios]

Rune Scape is an java on line RPG a lot of kids play my step nephew has been playing it since he was around 10 or so. Runs on all platforms though not sure if a girl will like it but if she does get a crow bar to pry her away from it.